Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-05


The Bassett Clipper has ceased to be.
The Holt County People is dead.
Sheridan county has 1903 road districts.
Hastings wants an asylum for the insane.
The people OF Lioerty are talking up a free
All Saints (Episcopal) church Of Omaha is
completed.
The poor farm Of Dodge county has eigh-
teen guests.
The Dunbar train wreckers are in jail at
Nebraska City.
Cedar Rapids proposes to plant 5000 in a
new school building.
The Elk Creek phantom" who was struck
in the stomach with a brick, has gone out Of
the ghost business.
An agricultural society has been organized
al Greedy Centre.
The new Touring mill to be built at Kim
ball, will cost 500 o
Hastings has an organization called the
Good Behavior society.
Ponca expects 20 have a new three story
brick hotel next summer.
The big mill at Wayne has pulyerized $4,000
bushels of wheat since fall.
A man at Hastings has been passing coun-
terfeit 81 and $40 certificates.
At Vernon five large brick buildings have
been completed since last July.
Logan county confidently expects the
Union Pacific road in the spring.
Tobias is anxious TO bono itself for a cheese
factory and another railroad line.
The city council of Hastings has submitted
the proposition for a street car line.
The Salvation army is keeping the moral
status of Lincoln in good order.
The annual encampment of the Grand
Army will occur on the 10th of March.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemeu
of Wymore will give their first annual ball
Feb. %.
Last year l,)49 car loads Of merchandise,
coal, stock and other articles were unloaded
at Sidney.
-Four Cinnamon have been received into the
Lincoln.
Reports from all over the state are to the
effect that live stock isdoing remarkably well
this winter.
The surveyors of the Elkhorn Valley rail
road are within sixteen miles Of Sutton, head
ing for Hastings.
The contract for building a new stone
school house at Sidney has been let. 1t will
cost about $4,000.
John Widup and John Kelsey, farmers, had
a fight at Friend. Widup stabbed Kelsey, in
ficting fatal wounds.
Tho o,nrapna a,urt hos doci1a3 that nalota
county must pay interest on $4,000 county
bonds held 10y the state.
From City {, CT" hundred loads of pitch
pine wood are marketed at Chadron daily.
The citizens defy "a coal famine.
Albion Is alarmed over the absence Of pro-
lection from fire, the waterworks standpipe
having frozen up and burst.
The Merchants association Of Beatrice in
tend giving a public reception to Senator
elect Paddock at IN early day.
The English Lutheran church of West
Point has just been surmounted ky a fine
new bell, weighing ll5 pounds.
Grand Island, with 5000 population, has
given her newly organized street railway
company "A franchise free Of cost.
The comptroller OF the currency has auth
orized the First National Bank OF Beaver
City to begin business with a capital Of $50,
600.
\ short time ago two farmers in the north
part OF Holt county had a petty quarrel.
One of them kicked the other in the abdomen
and killed him.
Swan John on, a Swede, was fatally injured
on Monday by having been run over by a
yards at Omaha.
The railroad meeting at Geneva decided
that Fillmore county could stand a mortgage
for $50, 900 If the Elkhorn Valley road would
build through the county.
Hon. Tom O'Day, of O'Neill City, one of
the brightest lawyers in northern Nebraska,
and a Democrat with a number thirteen sole,
is soon to move to Omaha.
Nebraska will be twenty years old as a
state March /. When the state was organiz-
I'd there were but twenty-five organized coun
ties, now there are seventy three.
Brewster, which was plated and surveyed
only about seven months ago, now has eighty
houses completed and in process Of erection,
and boasts OF the only printing Office and
newspaper in the county and the largest pub
lie hall.
The new company organized by the Bur
lington ~ Missouri, the Republican Valley IL
Wyoming, will construct a road TO start
from a point near Culhertson and run to the
Colorado line through Hitchcock, H9ycs and
Chase counties.
A colony consisting OF seventy five fami-
lies has been organized al kenesaw, and VIII
move to Cheyenne county early in the
spring. The colonists will start an entire
town at once, and will 20 prepared with ev-
e~rything necessary.
According to the McCook Democrat times
are remarkably duh and money hard to get.
but the people there are living in anticipation
of the future business boom that is sure to
come with the budding Of the trees and
sprouting Of the grass.
s. a. Walker, of Red Cloud. was probably
fatally injured by a man named Meyers at a
writing school near that city. Meyers had
been counting Walkers sister but her family
objected, which enraged him and caused the
assault on the brother.